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Muse Spark 1.3 vs Qwen3.8-Max

Compared only on public benchmark results, across the 4 tasks where both are listed: Muse Spark 1.3 is a tier higher in 1 of 4 shared tasks, they share a tier in 3.

Muse Spark 1.3

Meta's mid-tier proprietary Muse model line, offered through Meta's API.

Vendor: Meta
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: Sep 2026
API price: $1.25 in / $4.25 out per 1M tokens
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Muse Spark 1.3

Qwen3.8-Max

Alibaba's hosted Qwen3.8-Max: the API version takes text, image and video input with a 1M-token context.

Vendor: Alibaba (Qwen)
Weights: Closed: API and apps only
Released: 2 Aug 2026
API price: $2 in / $6 out per 1M tokens (Alibaba Cloud Model Studio list price quoted by The Batch (cached input $0.25/1M); OpenRouter lists the same for the qwen3.8-max-0902 snapshot. The higher-throughput 'Max Prime' SKU (2026-09-23) costs $4/$12.)
License: proprietary
Last verified: 18 Oct 2026

Alternatives to Qwen3.8-Max

Task by task

Task	Muse Spark 1.3	Qwen3.8-Max	Higher tier
Chat & assistants Models	S1,494 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	A1,482 on LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Muse Spark 1.3
Writing Models	A1,461 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	A1,469 on LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) · Cloud	Same tier
Coding Models	B1,659 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	B1,674 on LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) · Cloud	Same tier
Image understanding Models	S1,290 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	S1,301 on LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) · Cloud	Same tier

A tier spans a range of scores, and small gaps on a leaderboard are often within its margin of error, so only a different tier counts as ahead. How we rank.

Same benchmark, both results

Benchmark	Muse Spark 1.3	Qwen3.8-Max	Snapshot
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index Composite index over Artificial Analysis' own evaluation suite, higher is better	48 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)	45 Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	19 Oct 2026
Artificial Analysis MMMU-Pro (independent evaluation) Accuracy on MMMU-Pro (multi-discipline multimodal questions over images), as run by Artificial Analysis, higher is better	82% Muse Spark 1.3 (Xhigh)	82.8% Qwen3.8 Max (0902)	19 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, style-controlled default view), higher is better	1,494 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)	1,482 qwen3.8-max	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Text Arena: Creative Writing (style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes, creative-writing prompts only, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,461 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)	1,469 qwen3.8-max	15 Oct 2026
LMArena Vision Arena (overall, style control) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on image + text prompts, style-controlled view), higher is better	1,290 muse-spark-1.3-max	1,301 qwen3.8-max	9 Oct 2026
LMArena WebDev / Code Arena (overall) Arena score (Bradley-Terry rating from pairwise human votes on web-app generation), higher is better	1,659 Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)	1,674 Qwen3.8-Max (0902)	18 Oct 2026